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Strangers and kin
the American way of adoption
By Melosh, Barbara
- ISBN
- 978-0-67400-912-7
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass. ; Harvard University Press, 2002.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2002
An adoptive mother herself, Melosh (English and history, George Mason Univ.) offers an insightful and well-researched history of adoption in the United States. Although she draws on a broad range of studies, much of her documentation and examples come from the records of the Children's Bureau of Delaware. She begins in the early 20th century, when adoption was rare; through the 1930s and 1940s, when social workers formalized many of the procedures ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
